HYDERABAD, Jan 26: President Gen Pervez Musharraf is likely to inaugurate the Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited (JJVL) -- a liquefied petroleum gas project constructed at a cost of $40 million -- on Jan 31, civil administration sources said.

The ground breaking ceremony of the project was performed by then Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on March 16 last year. A joint meeting of the civil administration, district government, police and law-enforcement agencies was held at the Shahbaz Hall here on Tuesday to discuss security arrangements for the proposed visit of the president.

DCO Mohammad Hussain Syed and DPO A. D. Khwaja were among the participants. The Lahore-based Associated Group, US company The Hanover of Texas and former Oklahoma governor David Walter are said to be three major stakeholders of the joint venture.

According to the chief executive of the JJVL and the Associated Group, Iqbal Z. Ahmad, about 500 tonnes of LPG would be produced per day which would cater to the needs of 500,000 families and 5,000 people would get direct or indirect employment. The Sui Southern Gas Company is expected to get a royalty of $5 million per annum.

TWO CONVICTS SHIFTED: An activist of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, and Asif Zaheer, convicts in several cases of targeted and sectarian killings in Karachi, were shifted to the Hyderabad Central Prison on Wednesday from Karachi. Prison sources said the convicts had been kept in the condemned ward. The accused were convicted in cases registered at some police stations in Karachi.